J. A. Konrath Quotes
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
J. A. Konrath
Quotes to Explore
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
Karan Mahajan
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
R. L. Stine
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
Barbara Bush
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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
Tariq Ali
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I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad - or good - way.
Alfie Allen
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Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.
Lionel Shriver
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To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
Jean Tinguely
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We're learning how infections are travelling around the world and, sadly, how cholera in Haiti was brought in by U.N. peacekeeping forces from south Asia.
Mark Walport
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My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.
Leo Varadkar
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I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
Amanda Hocking
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I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.
Jeff Abbott
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A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.
Margaret Heffernan
